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iCloud in new Photos app


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Has anyone looked at the new Photo app and removing/blocking the iCloud functionality? I did see within the app that there is a ./Contents/Resources/PreferencePanels.plist and a section related to iCloud.

I'm planning on digging through it all next week to see what settings i can mess with, but haven't seen any discussion threads if anyone else has looked at this yet or not.

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  • April 24, 2015

Additionally, looks like user preferences are stored under:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Photos.plist

Summarize photos: IPXDefaultPhotosSummarizePhotos -bool NO
Copy items to the Photos library: IPXDefaultImportUseReferencedImport -bool NO
Include location information for published items: IPXDefaultPlacesPublishPlaceInfo -bool NO
Print Products Store: KHUserPreferredStoreCountryKey -string US


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  • May 1, 2015

If anyone is curious, i ended up modifying PreferencePanels.plist to remove the iCloud section. That seemed to remove most of the iCloud stuff. But the "Shared" tab still exists. I don't know of a way to lock that down yet. It includes a button to open up the iCloud System Preferences pane, but if that is locked down it won't be able to do anything. Just not as great a user experience as being able to remove it completely.


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